attempting to boot from SD card

     I am trying to install linux mint 9 from a 8 gig usb flash drive onto a microSD card (8 gigs as well) that will reside on a fit-pc2 that (if this resolves itself) will function as a router.
     I booted into live mode and ran the gui installer (ubiquity). I created one partition on the microSD card (ext3) on which I installed linux mint 9. I then powered off the machine and removed the usb flash stick. Once that completed I turned on the machine with the microSD card being the only source of bootable memory.
     After the boot sequence the screen turned dark for about 5 mins. After that an error message made itself known to me "Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/ab15b395-8a89-4cdd-92fc-573f79a52f07 does not exist" (without the quotes).
     I consulted google and the manufactures forums. They both advised me to mount the drive using the command "sudo e2fsck -fp /dev/sd##" (again without the quotes). I made the command relevant to my machine and ran it. This is what greeted me " e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/mmcblk0". I then tried looking up /dev/mmcblk0 in fstab, where it did not exist. dmesg however, tells me it's there (this is the only clue known to me that the machine recognizes it). I do not know what to do at this point